It's another busy ballot for Colorado this year, and with early voting starting today and mail-in ballots on the way, here's our take on the many statewide questions voters will face:

Amendments to the state constitution

Amendment 60 (property taxes): No. Spells disaster for Colorado and Summit County by reducing by half what schools get from property taxes and other reductions. Summit County just laid off 10 good people; the school district has already cut $1.4 million out of it's budget. Who wants to make it worse? Plus, this would undermine previous votes of the people on how they want government to operate and robs us of local control.

Amendment 61 (limits gov't borrowing): No. Simply bad policy that would cripple the ability of government to incur debt. It's particularly harmful to the school district, which relies on cash-flow borrowing to bridge the gap between the property-tax collection season and the district's fiscal year.

Amendment 62 (personhood): No. Another attempt to outlaw abortion, this one goes even further than its 2008 predecessor by outlawing some methods of birth control.

Amendment 63 (health care): Yes. While we don't believe this should be yet another amendment to the state constitution, it does send a statement to the federal government about mandating how or whether an individual pays for health care.

Referred amendments

P (changes how gaming is regulated): Yes. It makes sense to have gaming oversight done by the state department of revenue rather than the secretary of state's office.

Q (plan to relocate state government in case of emergency): Yes. Again, makes sense and does not appear to incur much additional expense.

R (exempt possessory interests): No. This one would eliminate property taxes for people or businesses using government-owned property if the benefit is under $6,000. The tax code is already complicated enough, and everyone should be on a level playing field.

Propositions

101 (state fees): No. Along with 60 and 61, this is bad policy that will undermine funding to our highways when it's desperately needed. It also cuts more funds to schools, state and local government.

102 (bail bonds): No. Benefiting only the bail bonds industry, this would meddle with a system that's fine the way it is.

Local questions

1A/1B/1C (Keystone Parkway improvements): Yes. Could Keystone, as one of Summit County's three major resorts, use a spiffing-up of the section of Highway 6 that serves as its entrance? Yes. With the economy still down, it may not seem the perfect time, but looked at in the long term, it's a plus for homeowners and the resort (which, as a major property owner in the area, will pay its share). It seems clear this community will decide to do this, if not now then later. It makes sense, then, to do it now with constructions costs low.

2D (Breckenridge lodging tax): Yes. The town can't keep borrowing from its piggy bank to prop up marketing, and this provides a reliable stream of funds to market the town and keep it competitive with other resorts. The potential downside of how the increase could affect sales has been addressed by the town's lodging community, and the fact that the cost will be borne not by locals but by those renting the lodging makes a lot of sense. We would still pose the question of whether the Town of Breckenridge has tightened its belt as much as possible before levying another tax, even one that falls only on tourists.

3B (school mill levy override): Yes. See our editorial of Oct. 9 for more on this, but the simple explanation is this will prevent even more steep cuts from our schools while still allowing property taxes to decrease due to a previous mill levy expiring this year.

*SDN will weigh in on the Blue River tax questions later this week.

-The Summit Daily Editorial Board consists of Matt Sandberg, Alex Miller, Ryan Wondercheck, Maggie Butler, Jim Ernst and Miles Porter.